The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 9

'V Second Section (t Second Section Danville Va Wednesday Afternoon August 18 1954 (educed Sales Send Coffee Prices Down Bachelors Hall Its Identity Confused A CHEERWINE give you Deaths Last Night taste Died Tuesday DOLLAR DAYS right of the house stand are GREAT DAYS for SAVINGS! BED SHEETS light in 200 20 BY 40 INCHES 'an u'M SPECIAL CARSTAIRS SPECIAL Ip DRESS SOCKS Wflnte possible BLENDED WHISKEY SPECIAL 100 BEAUTIUL PARRAKEETS SPECIAL SPECIAL KEG 298 $190 I PINT 35 ''3X this at 9 401 MAIN STREET money baJ fAMTAlRS BROS DISTILLING INC NEW JYORK I BLENDED WHISKEY 8G PROO 72 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS "si A yl j1 you tips The dining room is lo the opposite side of the much for buying of Americans There are 95000 railroad tank cars owned by nonrailroad firms and used for shipping petroleum tank cars in the United States I a Charles heavyweight challenger won 42 amateur fights and lost none He then decided to turn pro old south Above one of the mantles (lower left) hangs a copy of the Great Seal of The Confederacy and pictures of Generals Lee and Jackson A portion of the spacious boxwood gardens is shown at lower right too And by Housewives To Be Rewarded (One in a series of articles that deal with the old plantation homes which lie along the Valley of the Dan Biver west of DanviUe) i In tune i with i your i taste Tooley Howard Tooley Cheerwine at home too Buy a carton today BLACKSBURG Va Insect pests in stored grain in Virginia are increasing Arthur Morris associate en tomologist at VPI says grain that has been in storage for quite a while Is likely to be infested and new grain crops in storage soon will be if the proper precautions are not taken at time of storage All stored grain should be check ed often for insect infestations end control measures should be begun as soon as even lestationk are present A USDA publication Grain will give cn control Ask your county agent for a free copy Other current highlights in the USDA leaflet 109 Japanese have used cormorants (birds) to catch fish for them for at least 1000 years says the National Geographic Society History shows that the original is not the home located an the Martinsville Road but is another building a short distance away on the road leading to Leaksville (top photo) Its name came from the fact that two brothers who were bachelors once built a large hail type home there to which more was add ed later Now the home of Mrs Lester Dibble it reflects tfte i By The Associated Press Rep Paul Shafer Rep Paul Shafer Michigan Republican serv ing his 18th year in the House He was 61 Howard NEW 57' public relations director for the Boys Clubs of America and author of radio and television plays on the subject Native of Colum bus Ind Died Tuesday How To Hold ALSE TEETH More irmly in Place Do your false teeth ajinoy and em barrass by slipping dropping or wob bling when you eat laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little ASTEETH oai your plates This alkaline (non acld) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably No gummy gooey pasty taste or feeling Does not sour Checks (denture breath) Get ASTEETH today at any drug counter or making a pound of coffee go further pWith the June price hike this trend became a wave of price resistance coffee exports to the United States were cut al most in half Since Brazil depends upon coffee exports to supply Jts needs the situation became acute The Brazilian government bowed to the American housewife jug gled its cruzeiros once again and came up ith a lower price for coffee here It will be interesting to sea how much if any of the Ameri can market Brazil has lost by its previous Hiking One word of caution already has come from a Brazilian source Horacio Cintra Leite representa tive here of the Brazilian (Coffee Institute says the new Currency juggling is aimed at selling more coffee for dollars but that as for the world at large for coffee remains above the level of supply" so world prices will remain stable for a long time The American housewife will wait and see NEW YORK American housewives who took a dim view of coffee price boosting jrre looking forward today to their reward coffee price cuts The Brazilian government hiked the export price of coffee in June It was one hike many Americans Brazilian coffee dropped sharply Now the Brizilian government is reshuffling its complicated for eign exchange set up and announ ces that Brazilian coffee farmers will get just much in Brazil ian money for their crop But Americans will pay less in dollars The American housewife got another break on the government price support a while back when the American which props the price of many food items just as Brazil supports the price of lowered the support price for butter And with lower prices the American housewife has increased her buying of butter by about 8 per cent But on another front she is losing a skirmish The price of bread has headed up by one cent in several cities Bakers blame many things One is government price supports for wheat Bakers say farmers are planting less of the high grade wheat which bakers prefer for" bread Instead farmers are planting the lower grades which have the advantage of higher yields per acre This 40c Value 290 Lb' pest world I Bats in dwellings are causing concern In widely separated places' in the state Sometimes bats are! responsible for infestations of bedbugs in the dwellings they in habit or control tips on either of the two pests ask your county agent for Bats EYom Build or USDA leaflet 337 t'Bed bugs How to Control Them" The common nuisance the housefly continues to be a nuis ance Ask for Control with Poisoned VPI Agricultural Extension Service circular 619 Other printed aids in combat ing the insect world are: ting Rid of Bees Wasps and Hor nets" and in The Horae and Garden" Blended by CARSTAIRS BROS DISTILLING CO IncA Sttcrrnon Canhun 1 Call Ji Co) Distillers Blenders Bottler Baltimore Md One of the greatest purchases in the industry makes this 1 By RANK BARNES There has existed in the minds of some people av question which of two homes is the real Hall" Early records Indicate that two bachelor brothers from Scotland came to Virginia in the latter part of the 18th century and settled in the section just off Highway 58 some five miles west of Dan ville These two brothers built a one room home with a loft above Perhaps a clearer explanation would be that they built a one room since the structure was reported to be quite large It was from this one room built by the two brothers that the pres ent day evolved Today there are eight rooms In the white frame home that is own ed by Mrs Lester Dibble There are apparently no records to show whether or not the builders ever added to the structure but they do relate that when Decatur Jones purchased the home in the 19th Century that he and his wife add ed an undisclosed number of rooms to the house which quit probably brought it to its present day total It was while the Jones familywas living there that tobacco manufacturing was begun on the plantation This was one of many such industries which dotted thecountryside of that section of the Piedmont known as the of The question referred to in the first part of this article about the two homes deals with that section which most residents of the area refer to as Ac cording to information available that part of Pittsylvania County received its name in the latter part of the 19th Century and al though there are several old homes in that section the original Hall" is the one that stands on the Leaksville Highway The interior of the house has been remodeled in recent years and the arrangement of the rooms has been altered somewhat but the beauty of the distinguished home still remains The lumber for the home was hewed by hand and the floors are of heart pine The drawing room is to the left of the road entrance Above its mantle are hung a reproduction of the Great Seal of the Confederacy and pictures of Generals Lee and Jackson cated on hall To the the boxwood gardens which are laid off in double rows and to the rear of the colonial structure are! the original smoke house dove colt and tobacco tying barn which are all in good condition Although it is not the purpose to include personalities in these articles the writer believes it of interest to the reader to include the fact that Lady Nancy Astor's mother was reared in this home while it was in possession of De catur Jones 1 The heritage that was given the 1 present day South is maintained at Hall" in its truest tea ditlons Note: "Bachelor's is not open to the public) (Tomorrow: RANT CO 5 4 1st Quality 81 99 2 300 STEEL VENETIAN BLINDS 298 Value 2 for 5 00 JUMBO SUGAR WAERS NEW MERCHANDISE SPORT SHIRTS Short Sleeve Printed Values of 119 100 Insect Pests InStored Grain 'At Are increasing Bird Cage complete with feed ing and watering cup 369 Seed i nf fun' nu can buv favorite birds special low price healthy happy pets euyto care for and amazingly intelligent Buy your today at this Grant Low Price CANNON BATH TOWELS 59c VALUE JACQUARD BEDSPREADS 398 Value 2 for 5OO 56th Year gives farmers more bushels to put under government price support loans Bakers say there is a shortage of the high grade wheat this sum mer so bread prices are going up The housewife is getting a break at the meat counter however al though this is due to high pro duction rather than government controls The American Meat In stitute says that retail meat prices LiUW flic dl LUC lUWCJH 1LV1 ucl( year and down considerably from I the first of the year juggling of coffee ex port prices was forecast last ri 1 day when coffee futures broke sharply on the New York Coffee Sugar Exchange under selling by houses with Brazilian connec tions The following day Brazil an nounced it would let coffee ex porters retain some American dol lars when they sold to the United States Previously they had to turn all dollars over to the Brazil ian government and get cruzeiros for them Since Brazilians can get more cruzeiros for dollars on the free market than they can from their own government it means they can sell coffee for less here and still come out ahead at home The real story in the coffee breaks for the housewife however goes back to June 3 when the Bra zilian government hiked its ex port price to 87 cents a pound from 68 cents American house wives 1 already had been slowing down on their purchases of cof fee turning to other beverages PLASTIC CHAIR CUSHIONS 69c Value 2 fof 1OO DRAPERY SLIP COVER MATERIAL 69c Value 2 Yard 100 New Merchandise SO Sq APRONS Assorted Styles 69c Value 2'100 PILLOW CASES One Half Dozen NEW MERCHANDISE BLOUSES cotton broadcloth short sleeves assorted colors 129 value 100 Extra Special SPECIAL DRESSES One Lot of Close outs Values up to 279 1 "TO i awe wi a 1'il UM iMMNKHoSWs ear 'ZZ 1 xc AXA XX "2772 Zs 4 A 1 ir S' A max pt yz's if "Mi Ijsb' 'S wi rjt nr jrZ7T tT: 7 715: 4b 'Ew OD I 1 wlh i wktanolj iJov V) IA i '5 1 4 I C9 vam ss i I I I 4 CS I WM1 ft S' bt I 7 fVW I 1 I I I va bit'" A i to s( lO" I 110' O' 1 11 A SQoo i 6 ZiLiiiiiS' mW 5 I.